View of the day-That's what it looks like...we're making dust. For about 5 minutes to take a test...the first time.
Al was up early and out to see how the farmer was making out with the swathing. Apparently they were in Ft. Pierre with at a cattle sale and they didn't get back home until almost midnight, so that meant nothing got swathed yesterday. He was going out to give it a try later on today.
We decided to go out and do a test around 1pm...it seemed to be the thing to do since the sun was shining and the wind was blowing hard. Unfortunately the humidity was 65%...not the best for drying. Al moved the combine over and did a test which we took into the elevator...17.6% moisture...not good. We went back to move the cart over, then decided to change out the high pressure switch for the A/C on the combine...we figured we could test it out when we did the 4pm test. Most of the tests in the area were all around 17% so it wasn't just us.
On the way to check out the pickup head, we ran into the farmers trying to get the swather through a narrow gate. Fortunately Al is an old hand at these things they were in transport mode and through the gate in no time at all and on their way to the wheat fields up north.
We stopped at the Ace hardware to pick up some new electrical ends for the two headers. It seems they manage to get caught when the headers get hooked up and they get ripped off...moving down the highway we really like to be seen and the lights help a lot.
The rest of the day was pretty much like the others have been, until Al went out to do a test at 4pm. He went on his own and was gone quite a while, but since he didn't take his cell Marilyn had no idea what was going on. He came back with the news that the test was 16.6%...not much better...and after checking out how the swathing was going, found out a bearing had piled up...just great. The farmer dropped by the camper later on and said they had everything up and running.
Tomorrow will be better, for sure...
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